Christopher Garrett
08 Sep - 14 Oct 2006
CHRISTOPHER GARRETT
A Private Ocean
Project Room
Christopher Garrett’s work involves a personal archaeology that extends his practice through drawing and sculpture. Skeletons, sea shells, Volkswagen beetles, waves and octagons are recurring images in his work and are used as a metaphor for personal relationships and artifacts of memories from his childhood.
Garrett’s exhibition will include nine drawings, several sculptures and an installation using old cut-out landscape paintings collected from thrift stores by friends. The main sculpture in the exhibition are two almost identical works depicting a skeleton sitting in a tree gazing at another skeleton in a tree. The trees are produced all in white, as are the skeleton figures, creating a ghostly image of self- reflection. His graphite drawings continue an ongoing narrative in a fractured, dreamlike story and a rubbing created from multiple gravestones spells out a familiar tune made haunting.
Christopher Garrett lives and works in New York, NY. Garrett has upcoming exhibitions at Nicolai Wallner in Copenhagen and White Columns in NY. He exhibited a solo exhibition at Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco and has been included in many group exhibitions including shows at the Aspen Art Museum, Deitch Projects, NY; The Approach, London; Baronian Francey, Brussels; and New Image Art, Los Angeles.
A Private Ocean
Project Room
Christopher Garrett’s work involves a personal archaeology that extends his practice through drawing and sculpture. Skeletons, sea shells, Volkswagen beetles, waves and octagons are recurring images in his work and are used as a metaphor for personal relationships and artifacts of memories from his childhood.
Garrett’s exhibition will include nine drawings, several sculptures and an installation using old cut-out landscape paintings collected from thrift stores by friends. The main sculpture in the exhibition are two almost identical works depicting a skeleton sitting in a tree gazing at another skeleton in a tree. The trees are produced all in white, as are the skeleton figures, creating a ghostly image of self- reflection. His graphite drawings continue an ongoing narrative in a fractured, dreamlike story and a rubbing created from multiple gravestones spells out a familiar tune made haunting.
Christopher Garrett lives and works in New York, NY. Garrett has upcoming exhibitions at Nicolai Wallner in Copenhagen and White Columns in NY. He exhibited a solo exhibition at Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco and has been included in many group exhibitions including shows at the Aspen Art Museum, Deitch Projects, NY; The Approach, London; Baronian Francey, Brussels; and New Image Art, Los Angeles.